Poets of Broadstone Books Reading

Four poets with recent work from Broadstone Books—Ann Lauinger, Mervyn Taylor, Margo Taft Stever, and Susana H. Case read from their recent collections. Dime Saint, Nickel Devil, New of the Living, The End of Horses, and The Damage Done, respectively.

Susana H. Case is the author of eight books of poetry, most recently The Damage Done (Broadstone Books, 2022). Dead Shark on the N Train (Broadstone Books, 2020) won a Pinnacle Book Award for Best Poetry Book and a NYC Big Book Award Distinguished Favorite and was a Finalist for the Eric Hoffer Book Award. She is also the author of five chapbooks. Her first collection, The Scottish Café (Slapering Hol Press) was re-released in a dual-language English-Polish version, Kawiarnia Szkocka (Opole University Press). Her poetry is translated into Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese. Poems by Case have appeared in literary journals including CALYX, Catamaran, The Cortland Review, Portland Review, Rattle, RHINO, and upstreet. Case recently retired as Professor from the New York Institute of Technology in New York City, where she taught for thirty-eight years. She is a co-editor of Slapering Hol Press. (www.susanahcase.com)

Ann Lauinger’s books of poetry are Persuasions of Fall (University of Utah, 2004), which won the Agha Shahid Ali Prize in Poetry, Against Butterflies (Little Red Tree Publishing, 2013), and Dime Saint, Nickel Devil(forthcoming from Broadstone Books). Her poems have appeared in publications from Alimentum to Zone 3, including The Cumberland River Review, Descant, Georgia Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, Parnassus, Plant-Human Quarterly, Salamander, The Same, Smartish Pace, The Southern Poetry Review, and Spillway. Translations from Italian, French, and Latin have appeared in The Massachusetts Review, Levania, and Transference and are forthcoming in an anthology from Shanghai University Press. Her work has been featured on Poetry Daily, Verse Daily, and Martha Stewart Living Radio. Professor emerita of literature at Sarah Lawrence College, she is a member of the Slapering Hol Press Advisory Committee and lives in Ossining, NY.

Margo Taft Stever’s three full-length poetry collections are Cracked Piano (CavanKerry Press, 2019), shortlisted and honorable mention for the 2021 Eric Hoffer Award Grand Prize; The End of Horses, Broadstone Books, 2022; and Frozen Spring, 2002 Mid-List Press First Series Award for Poetry. Her latest of four chapbooks is Ghost Moose (Kattywompus Press, 2019). Her poems have appeared in literary magazines including Verse Daily, Plant-Human Quarterly, Cincinnati Review, Rattapallax, upstreet, Salamander, West Branch, Poet Lore, Blackbird, Poem-A-Day, poets.org, Academy of American Poets, and Prairie Schooner. She is currently an adjunct assistant professor in the Bioethics Department of the School of Medicine at Case Western Reserve University. Stever also teaches a poetry workshop at Children’s Village, a residential school for at-risk children and adolescents. She is founder of the Hudson Valley Writers Center and founding and current co-editor of Slapering Hol Press. (www.margotaftstever.com)

Mervyn Taylor, originally from Trinidad, has been a Brooklyn resident for many years. He has taught at Bronx Community College, The New School, and in the New York City Public School system. Retired from teaching, he’s the author of seven full-length books of poetry, including No Back Door, Voices Carry, and the recent Country of Warm Snow (all by Shearsman Books), a Poetry Book Society Recommendation which was longlisted for the 2021 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature in the poetry category. A chapbook, News of the Living: Corona Poems, was published by Broadstone Books. Taylor can be heard reciting his poetry on the CD Road Clear, accompanied by renowned bassist David Williams. He is a co-editor of Slapering Hol Press. (www.mervyntaylor.com)